The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 123
At eleven o’clock he plunged into the cool darkness of the trees, and took the path that led straight to the river.
Who acts: attraction, path · What happens: plunge, take, lead · To what, where: eleven o’clock, path, river
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attraction, path), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 o’clock | case |
| 2 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o’clock | nummod |
| 3 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plunged | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 plunged | nsubj |
| 5 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 darkness | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 darkness | det |
| 8 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 darkness | amod |
| 9 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plunged | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trees | det |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 darkness | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 plunged | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 path | det |
| 17 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 led | nsubj |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 path | acl:relcl |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 23 river | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge | past | attraction | eleven o’clock | into the cool darkness of the trees | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into darkness=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | attraction not said here | the path | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the path | the river | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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